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The tight-interlocked rhythm section: Production and perception of synchronisation in Jazz Trio Performance

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  • cris.virtual.department
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  • cris.virtual.orcid
    0000-0002-7995-3175
    0000-0002-1722-0718
    0000-0003-0615-9277
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  • dc.contributor.author
    Hofmann, Alex
    Wesolowski, Brian C.
    Goebl, Werner
  • dc.date.accessioned
    2024-05-28T16:36:29Z
  • dc.date.available
    2024-05-28T16:36:29Z
  • dc.date.issued
    2017
  • dc.description.abstract
    This study investigates the production and perception of timing, synchronisation and dynamics in jazz trio performances. In a production experiment, six trio combinations of one saxophonist, two bassists, and three drummers were recorded while they performed three popular jazz songs. Onset timing and dynamics of each performer were extracted and analysed. Results showed that the tempo was significantly influenced by the timing of the drummers and all performers showed higher temporal precision on the backbeats. The drummers demonstrated individual swing-ratios, accentuations of beats and intrapersonal asynchronies between simultaneous hi-hat and ride cymbal onsets, which resulted in a hi-hat played 2–26 ms ahead of the pulse of the music. In a subsequent perception test, participants () rated 12 excerpts of the jazz recordings. They selected their preferred version from a pool of stimuli containing the original version, but also manipulations with artificially increased or reduced asynchronies. Stimuli with reduced asynchronies smaller than 19 ms were preferred by the listeners over the original or the fully quantised timing. This suggests that listeners endorse a ‘tight-interlocked’ jazz rhythm section, with asynchronies smaller than the perceptual threshold (temporal masking), but with natural timing variabilities that makes it distinguishable from a computer-generated playback.
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  • dc.identifier.doi
    10.1080/09298215.2017.1355394
  • dc.identifier.uri
    https://dspace.mdw.ac.at/handle/123456789/5934
  • dc.language.iso
    en
  • dc.relation.journal
    Journal of new music research
  • dc.relation.project
    Synchronisation und Kommunikation in musikalischen Ensembles
  • dc.rights.license
    CC-BY-4.0
  • dc.subject
    synchronisation
    jazz ensemble
    timing
    drums
    bass
    saxophone
  • dc.title
    The tight-interlocked rhythm section: Production and perception of synchronisation in Jazz Trio Performance
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    text::journal::journal article
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    EDUC
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    Publication
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    main article
  • mdwlis.institutionalBibliography.citation
    Hofmann, Alex; Wesolowski, Brian; Goebl, Werner: The tight-interlocked rhythm section: Production and perception of synchronisation in Jazz Trio Performance. In: Journal of new music research 46 (2017). H. 4, S. 329-341.
  • mdwlis.institutionalBibliography.publicationType
    erstveröffentlichte Beiträge in SCI, SSCI und A&HCI-Fachzeitschriften - als internationale Ko-Publikationen
  • mdwlis.institutionalBibliography.subject
    Kunstwissenschaften
    Informatik
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    604
    102
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    6040
    1020
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    10042
    10001
  • mdwlis.institutionalBibliography.year
    2017
  • mdwlis.mdwonline.identifier
    60168
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    Ja
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    wissenschaftlich
  • mdwlis.publication.internationalCoPublication
    UGA, USA
  • mdwlis.publication.mdwAttribution
    Ja, mdw wird im Kontext der Publikation genannt
  • mdwlis.publication.status
    veröffentlicht
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    LIS > Publikationen > Bibliographischer Nachweis
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  • oaire.citation.endPage
    341
  • oaire.citation.issue
    4
  • oaire.citation.startPage
    329
  • oaire.citation.volume
    46
  • oairecerif.author.affiliation
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
    The University of Georgia
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna